How Can You Tell? You Can't, You Can Only Be Told And It Doesn't Make Any Difference

I had a couple of comments telling me that that dim dolly Trump supporter I linked to the other day was not a real one,  I answered the polite comment in the comments, I'm answering the impolite one here.

The Republican-fascists, their media whores at FOX, Sinclair, etc.  have made Q-insane a force in American politics of which up to two-fifths of the American public are either true believers in that or its like or are OK with it. 

This is worse than when Red Channels, Walter Winchell and Hedda Hopper were the model for the outer limits of propaganda and lies being empowered by a huge factor.

For those reasons, the ability to do satire in the United States is nullified.  It can't be done, what you call satire is merely mimickry, if you go over the top you can bet that some Trumpzi will have already raised the top above that. 

You can't do it under these conditions.  You want it back you're going to have to get the lies out of the media, the mass media, especially broadcast and cabloid and also socially transmitted dementia, the STDs of today,  Facebook, Twitter, the googlebombed search features on a number of search engines, general and on sites such as YouTube.   Dan Savage's "Santorum" stunt seemed hilariously impressive and gave the left an illusion that they could control that kind of thing, now we know the billionaire gangsters, the Mercers, the Kochs, the Putins, Erdogans, etc. or, rather, their hirelings were paying attention and like all such things they've got the money to really show how it's done. 

Everything is different, now.  The old rules not only don't apply, they're weaponized by the billionaire gangsters against us.  Anyone who doesn't realize that is an idiot or a sucker.  "More speech" is ever so much more "more speech" when it's powered with billions of dollars and the stupid gullibility of the "free speech-press" dogmas of the long dead early post-war period.   Once the Supreme Court made money speech, at the behest of the "civil liberties" industry, they changed that equation, making it go from a simple addition problem to one you'd need to write in scientific notation to represent the billionaire gangsters' "more speech."  

You "First Amendment" types are such ineducable suckers.   I don't automatically distrust someone who uses the word "liberty" but it gets my resistance up.  You'll notice that the "civil liberties" industry doesn't much do equality.  I think equality is a lot more of a protection of freedom and democracy than "liberties" that ignore reality.   Anyone who hadn't figured that out by the 1980s is an idiot or too young to have seen the history that proved it.